Science and technology in world history : an introduction / James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1952.Description: viii, 404 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0801858682 (alk. paper)
  • 9780801858680 (alk. paper)
  • 0801858690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780801858697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q125 .M414 1952
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Contents:
pt. .1 From ape to Alexander -- ch. 1. Humankind emerges: tools and toolmakers -- ch. 2. Reign of the farmer -- ch. 3. Pharaohs and engineers -- ch. 4. Greeks bearing gifts -- pt. 2. Thinking and doing among the world's peoples -- ch. 5. Enduring east -- ch. 6. Middle kingdom -- ch. 7. Indus, Ganges, and beyond -- ch. 8. New worlds -- pt. 3. Europe -- ch. 9. Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues -- ch. 10. Copernicus incites a revolution -- ch. 11. Crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei -- ch. 12. "God said, 'Let Newton be!'" -- pt. 4. Brave new world -- ch. 13. Industrial revolution -- ch. 14. Road to modern science: pure and applied -- ch. 15. Life itself -- ch. 16. Toolmakers take command -- ch. 17. New Aristotelians -- ch. 18. Applied science and technology today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. .1 From ape to Alexander -- ch. 1. Humankind emerges: tools and toolmakers -- ch. 2. Reign of the farmer -- ch. 3. Pharaohs and engineers -- ch. 4. Greeks bearing gifts -- pt. 2. Thinking and doing among the world's peoples -- ch. 5. Enduring east -- ch. 6. Middle kingdom -- ch. 7. Indus, Ganges, and beyond -- ch. 8. New worlds -- pt. 3. Europe -- ch. 9. Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues -- ch. 10. Copernicus incites a revolution -- ch. 11. Crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei -- ch. 12. "God said, 'Let Newton be!'" -- pt. 4. Brave new world -- ch. 13. Industrial revolution -- ch. 14. Road to modern science: pure and applied -- ch. 15. Life itself -- ch. 16. Toolmakers take command -- ch. 17. New Aristotelians -- ch. 18. Applied science and technology today.

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